and i'm happy to share one success story with you and i would ask as they stand as success coach, dana trafelet has her son joshua. if you could all stand out. [applause] grade every year. thank you for joining us. and to quickly tell you the story, dana was put in a school and on the first day of school, one of yolanda's children came and from one of her daughters came in and flip flops and dana had a chance to talk to her and learned about yolanda and her family situation. he was living in a homeless shelter. dana worked with them. we got them into rental housing. joshua was having challenges in school and if you look at it, joshua needed help on that front. yolanda is currently working part time now and looking purse or ged hopefully i'm a full-time job and joshua is doing well enough from school. from what i understand he won most improved in math and attend ends. [applause] they had come from the south when i was say to them is thank you for coming to michigan and welcome to michigan. thank you are sharing your story. thank you. [applause] say great success. another great successe

, dana millbank and his senior partner and msnbc political analyst, euge eugene robinson. there is an animal husbandry as pekt. the people vote -- is it just that we've gotten to a situation in this country where primary is all you've got? if there's a wide field in the primary and a nutty guy wins it, he's in or she's in for life. so if stockman wins a primary, will it with a wide field? crazy after all of these years? >> that's exactly what happened. he was this guy, in the past, he was homeless, eating out of trash cans, had a drug arrest, long rap sheet. they didn't really pay attention. he just got elected in the republican revolution. wait a second, and they got rid of him. you know what, you can't do that anymore. this guy has a safe seat for life. the only way he doesn't get reelected is if he gets bumped out in a primary. >> did somebody get to this guy's right? >> the thing is -- you can't. the thing is he's now a member in good standing of the republican caucus. he's not some nut out there. he's in the mainstream. >> i have some sense of taste. some. and when i

daughters came in and flip flops and dana had a chance to talk to her and learn about yolanda and her family situation. they were living in a homeless shelter. we got them into rental housing and docile as having challenges in school. if you look at it, he needed some help on that front. yolanda is currently working part time now and working towards her ged and hopefully a full-time job, and joshua is doing well enough in school and what i understand is that he won the most improved award in math and also attends. [applause] they had come from the south, and whatever fate to them if thank you for coming to michigan and welcome to michigan, and thank you for sharing your story. [applause] >> enqueue. [applause] all a great success. another great success was our summertime youth initiative in putting people to work in some of our most challenge communities. lester we did over 750 kids and in terms of that, it has been wonderful and led by the dnr. many community organizations participating in this, and i wanted to recognize one of the people. in terms of that person, i would ask mr. williamson

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